{"id":102638,"date":"2020-05-21T04:44:56","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T11:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=102638"},"modified":"2020-05-21T04:45:34","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T11:45:34","slug":"kibbutz-for-innovative-and-seientific-agritculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/05\/21\/kibbutz-for-innovative-and-seientific-agritculture\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cKIBBUTZ FOR INNOVATIVE AND SEIENTIFIC AGRITCULTURE\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sarath Wijesinghe President\u2019s Counsel former Ambassador to UAE and Israel<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

Land is precious<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israelis Lived in most hostile conditions at\nthe initial stages<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Land is more precious in Israel being a small\nfraction of Sri Lanka consist of baron land with deserts with no water except\nGalilee at the extreme corner of the country. Most of the land is state owned\nand expensive for the citizens sandwiched among enemies right round the\nboarders. Having evicted from various parts of the world Jews chose to settle down\nin the Promised Land despite most hostile conditions with no water other\nfacilities and the barren land with no natural resources except the human\nresources hard work and determination. Environment was harsh, Galilee was\nswampy, Mountains were rocky, Negav was a desert, settlers have no farming experience, no\nwater and the sabotage of canals and burning was common and rampant. Living\ncollectively was the most logical way to be secured and   Kibbutzim was founded as agricultural\nvillages initially by the ideals of Ancient Sparta particularly in education,\nindustry, agriculture and community living with a mixture of socialist\ncommunist model influenced by Russia and Western model influenced by the influx\nof Jews from the West. Kibbutzim is a collective community in Israel that was\ntraditionally based on agriculture which means gathering or clustering. The\npotential of Kibbutzim  was gradually extended\nto dairy poultry industry arms trade  and\nconnected fields that  provided the\nhighest yield from a cow world over  and\nbest poultry output supplied to the rest of the world\u2019s, best and most\nsophisticated small and heavy  arms and small\nand heavy arms and ammunitions to the world  except the neighbours and the world sometimes hostile\nto them. They organized the movement is a more organize way by creating United\nKibbutxz movement with a unique bonded arrangements with the private sector and\nthe state ever prepared to help in the field of innovation promotion and Start\ncompanies and SMEs. They assumed a more prominent role in military to protect\nand safeguard the country and borders and protecting themselves by arming\nthemselves with production of arms which a money spinner today. In the 6 day\nwar when Israel lost 800 soldiers 200 of them were from Kibbutzim and Kibbutzins\nmade up 15% in the Israel Parliament. In 2010 there were 270 Kibbutzimin Israel\nTheir factories and farms account for 9% of industrial output worth us 8 billion\nand 40% of its agricultural output worth over 1.7 billion us dollars Some Kibbutzim\nhad also developed substantial hitch and military industries For example in2010\nkibbutz Sasa containing some 200 members generated millions of annual revenue\nfrom its military plastic industry. First Prime Minister named father of nation\nis a product of a Kibbuth as many leading figures in Israel. Education innovations\nand industrial knowledge is given priority with the practice and in-house\nknowledge on religious education and the strong culture Israel\u2019s carrying with\nthem for thousands of years. It is told that there are thousands of state and\nuncollated lands the foreign companies are eying to grab in the guise of\ndevelopments when the army commander has offered to assist Agro Tec based\ndevelopments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

World\u2019s most successful community movement<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How do we\nadopt this to our system or any system with modifications and adjustments? In\ntaking optimum use of land in housing, agriculture, industries, productivity\nand generally development and prosperity? What are main feathers and themes of\nthe concept? Historians have called Kibbutz as the world\u2019s most successful\ncommunity movement and at one stage Kibbutzniks produced 12 percent of the nation\u2019s\nexports in Israel shows the success story and how the system is integrated to\nthe national working plan in all areas. The Kibbutz is a major   part of the overall trajectory of the Israel\neconomic revolution. Israel politics is always volatile with controversies\ninfighting and fights with all neighbours with bitter bloody wars which does\nnot deter the developments agriculture or war machinery including manufacture\nof arms and ammunitions with the help of Kibbtuin movement too. Whether it was\nsocialist develop mentalists or hybrid – the economic track record of Israel\nwas impressive in par with political decisions. For few years she was in the non-alignment\nmovement and shifted to the west for safety in order to fight and live with\nhostile neighbour\u2019s right round. Original concept of the Kibbutzim was based to\na large extent on sled sacrifice as incubators oneself sacrifice of its members\nNow that some have been transformed to large companies and the products of\nKibbuths have reached the top which includes the father of the Nation theorist\nPrime Minister the originality may have slowed down but the nation still\nmaintains Kibbuths as promoters on agriculture, industry and still incubators\nof the progress on diversified areas. Israel Jews crossed a huge desert in\nmodern times to meet more desert and had to discover the richest of scarcity\nThey invented new methods of living kibbutzim Moshavavin development of towns\ndrilled and laboured and demanded much from themselves, they then turned to\ntechnology using Kibbutz as incubators they have no option but to proceed which\nis the success story with determination. Today they are not resting – they are\nenjoying and progressing despite the eternal struggle with the neighbours\nselling the products to the world over as leaders on technology and agriculture\nsetting an example and on advisory capacity to her admirations. President\nRajapaksa during the visit to Israel and Palestine with official meeting s with\nthe President and Prime Minister of Israel and Prime Minister of Palestine\n(privilege is given to President USA Sri Lanka  and few world leaders due to complicated\npolitical climates to visit two conflicting countries simultaneously) There is\na Buddhist Temple in Israel with few meditation centres with their\nintellectualism and it is time for us to be a party to show the olive leaf to\nconflicting parties for a settlement and for us to follow steps on rapid\ndevelopments using their experience and knowledge with the great religions we\nare blessed with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Land does not expand or multiply and limited to\na land area of the nation in a country multiplying the   population at a rapid rate. Land is a\nprecious to Israel\u2019s as the land for them is limited having fought two thousand\nyears to achieve the goal to reach the small Promised Land they are in\npossession today.   Land is very precious\nto us in Sri Lanka as the land area is limited and the population is rapidly\nincreasing with invasions by invaders from time to time. We should not ruin\ndestroy, misuse or alienate   valuable\nland for the construction of houses of inferior quality with law quality\nmaterials resulting destruction and waste of and valuable land. Best use of the\nland must be taken in construction and development whether privately owned or\nstate owned. Land alienation, distribution and use for developments should be\ncarefully scrutinized with strict laws, rules and regulations. This is the case\nin India, Israel, UK, and many parts of the world facing shortage of\nlands.  Very valuable estates are\nfragmented against law to block into small plots to give away the peasants with\na part of the expenses for construction of a house of his choice and the\npocket, and a closer look will show the criminal waste of valuable land\notherwise could have been made use for construction of proper houses or any\nother use on productivity and maximum use. It is alleged that more funds are\nutilized for propaganda work on housing projects. Invariably the land given to\npeasants is either sold to a third party or the house is not constructed in\nmajority cases is a known fact to an average citizen. It is time for us to\nadopt a novel system or a successfully tested concept known as Kibbutz\u201d\nclusters (innovated in Israel) linked with agriculture, innovations, industry\nas incubators of start-up companies SMEs and multinational companies. With great\nsuccess in development which has brought Israel to great heights on housing,\ninnovations, agriculture and achieving success as a world power with the help\nof only human resources properly and scientifically utilized. A citizen can\nwitness this sorry state either sides of the road and may hear sad stories on\nthe plight of the valuable lands given on some criteria. Majority of Land in\nSri Lanka is State owned, Company Owned, or encroached lands leaving the\ncitizen a limited number due to the planned acquisitions of property  done by the British to the presents by\nacquiring  thousands of acres of land for\nfew shillings forcibly which is on record. Fragmented lands to the Udagama\u2019s\u201d\nare lands belong to the state or may sometimes lands of archaeological importance\nand significance according to news reports with \nallegations of being white elephants \nof little use to the tenants. \nOther countries instead of distributing lands condominiums with clusters\nand stories of houses are constructed scientifically with facilities for\nrecreation, sports, saving land and making the best use of the land providing\nshelter to many with comfortable life. Udagama programme should be terminated\nforthwith to be replace by Kibbuths type of housing complexes linked to\nagriculture innovations education industry and community living for families\nand children to live study and work together in a commune with collective aims\nand ambitions for the development of the nation we love. By doing so the\ninmates will possess quality houses, goo quality of life, education on\ninnovations industries and many areas including the children in house with\nfreedom to be on their own, Kibbuths in Israel started small have now winded up\nwith major Agriculture Farms, Dairy Farms Industrial Estates which one can\nwitness by browsing the net on  the\nsubject. We can adopt the concept with modifications to suit us with the\nexperiences and the knowledge acquired on agriculture and innovations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The author\ncould be contacted on sarath7@hotmai.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bilateral talks with President Mahanda Rajapaksa (currently Prime Minister) with President Simon Peres then President (2014) President Simon Peres is a product of a Kibbutz<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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